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" The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television. "

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" All through Latin America, there's sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it's qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar. "

" If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. "

" Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies. "

" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "

" Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. "

" Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. "

" Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. "

" There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it. "

" Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. "

" When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. "

" When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. "

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

" By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. "

" The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment. "

" In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. "

" The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. "

" Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. "

" The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. "

" I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. "

" I don't pay a lot of attention to polls. "

" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. "

" In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders. "

" Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does. "

" If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions. "

" The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. "

" The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. "

" A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order. "

" Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. "

" The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT. "